Siobhán left the island many years previously but now, when she is summoned home by her aunt, she is forced to face the demons of her past and the crux of her unresolved pain: her relationship with her father.

Foxglove

A young woman travels home to reconcile with her past, the memory of her mother and her dying father

In an abandoned asbestos processing plant, two teenagers reluctantly execute a task they have both been dreading. 'Faitíos' is an Irish-language coming-of-age film that plays with genre and deals with the themes of culturally inherited sexual shame, adolescent anxiety and growing up in a post-crash Ireland.

Faitíos (The First Fear)

In an abandoned asbestos processing plant, two teenagers reluctantly execute a task they have both been dreading

Clara Harte, writer &amp; star of 'Foxglove', in conversation with Senior Programmer Don O'Mahony.

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